Rock singer Steve Ludwin has been injecting
himself with snake venom for 30 years. In a strange twist, his bizarre habit
could now save thousands of lives. His former partner Britt Collins tells his
outlandish story
Britt Collins
Sun 11 Feb 2018 08.00 GMTLast
modified on Mon 12 Feb 2018 11.16 GMT
Sometime in 2006, when my ex-boyfriend failed
to show up for dinner, I assumed something was wrong or perhaps he’d forgotten.
About a week later, calling to apologise, he told me he’d had an overdose,
accidentally injecting a lethal cocktail of venom from three snakes. A lot has
been written about Steve Ludwin, widely
known as the man who injects snake venom, and lately his life has turned into a
non-stop frenzy of international journalists and film crews revelling in the
seeming sheer insanity of it.
Steve was once my great love; an animal
lover, vegan and musician who wrote songs for Placebo and Ash, and played the Reading
festival with Nirvana. In between tours and recordings he dabbled
with snake venom. In his latest incarnation as a self-taught snake expert,
moulding himself into the role of a lifetime, he appears as a kind of living
specimen and star in a short film at the Natural History Museum’s new
exhibition, Venom:
Killer and Cure.
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